Zonnemaire

Zonnemaire is a village in the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland in the Dutch province of Zeeland.

Zonnemaire was named after Sonnemare, the water between the former islands of Bommenede and Schouwen.

Zonnemarie is a road village which was first mentioned in 985 when it became owned by the Count of Holland.

[3] The grist mill De Korenbloem was built in 1872 and was in service until 1961.

[5] Zonnemaire is the birthplace of Pieter Zeeman, who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.